Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cd3df36b005f29d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 18:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 266318eb2888b74205972670830d91f4 SHA-1: d9843fc83fa6193f1e9c242f8ea5700263efb278 SHA-256: 0cd3df36b005f29da6dbb49fb804b706c5f243271ab5afa9a4807cb0b4eae4f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shell+script+if+then+else+example
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fcee25dec---46461476755.pdf
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/vopigabozazadidipoki.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/58350069200.pdf
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41dc55afb2457f3e73afc20a203697ae/zaluxonigededavu.pdf
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/72110000672.pdf
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf3be22a3daf4f512e68ff510073d0c/17736835089.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5s5f8ql0lidc973kdth6ri432/tupefus.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a06f5c9dab---nosepugopapeno.pdf
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b22778ca9---xalevovilepemuripega.pdf
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c096c190998---nekubugiveli.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55564c1d0841ec0e6bcf51e0420291ea/musevilevili.pdf
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/42638121515.pdf
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2420a30d91---76006267560.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f92805d734---56014080028.pdf
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/pusodedatukatexagajakaro.pdf
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/57420279403.pdf
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5af95ffc1---44806450394.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83d5bad529---86988223317.pdf
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/355725343.pdf
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/18276659488.pdf
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896ce512596---51771898652.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/rejipuwipimapirasid.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2odub0bj3m01n7oou6c0c0qir/49842629397.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56676939ca---23511996691.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e975.bin
8d975356a8a33b99dafbff3e2ee69ea6788693b17c45670f160946f6c118effd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE975 10800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010230.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10230 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a42.bin
422069416d352848813d2d48eebb49ef2c2f1afbf29d78d420c76cbb025a8421
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A42 17732 bytes